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The Glory of the Unity of the Law.......2004-11-15

This is a necessary book in both jurisprudence and American history generally. Another reviewer believes that the justices of the period read their politics (or more accurately, what that reviewer believes to have been their politics) into the Constitution. This completely misses the point of the book: the justices believed not only in the unity of the common law, but in the Unity of the Law - that the Science of the Law is the golden chain that links the farthest reaches of theology to everyday human experience. Legislation in such a view is mere fallible distraction from Truth; the suggestion that the justices consciously introduced their political ideas into the law would have greatly insulted them. To speculate that these preferences unconsciously dictated their rulings not only falls into the murky depths of Legal Realism, but is directly contradicted by the evidence of the book, showing that all the justices, regardless of party affiliation or regional origin, shared this view. This is the norm against which Oliver Wendell Holmes' radicalism can now properly be viewed; it is ironic that the reviewer upset by the supposed activism of this Court holds their same conservative view that there can be only one correct interpretation of the law.

The Gilded Age Supreme Court and Morality.......2004-06-04

Recently, there has been an increasing stream of revisionist studies of the Supreme Court, focusing on the New Deal period, designed to convince us that the Court really was not as reactionary and partisan as generally believed. Cushman's book on the New Deal Court and McKenna's volume on the Court Packing plan are two examples. The author of this volume goes back to the Gilden Age Court to develop a complimentary thesis. It is hard to be too critical of the book, given that the scholarship is impeccable and exhaustively examines an area not too well studied in the Court literature. Bailey's main thesis is that the Justices comprising the Court between 1860 and 1910 overwhelmingly based their decisions upon a shared heritage of morality and ethics, which gave them a "moral compass." The author reviews in depth the speeches and off-the-court writings of Justices Brewer, Field, Strong, Harlan, Bradley, Brown, McKenna and others to examine their private views of morality, ethics, and the role of law. He demonstrates that several Justices, especially Brewer and Harlan, held strongly Christian orientations. The bibliography of original sources covers nearly ten pages and is a very valuable resource in tracing these viewpoints. But in final analysis, one asks "so what?" The fact that "moral" and Christian justices unleashed the Income Tax decision, developed the concept of freedom of contract, and came close to suppressing the labor and reform movements is not made any more palatable because those Justices sincerely believed in what they were doing. So the main contribution of the book, which is a substantial one, is that it gives us new insight into what made these Justices tick. Nonetheless, their oath was to preserve and protect the Constitution, not to translate their religious and ethical beliefs into constitutional law. Some Justices of the period appeared to have forgotten that fact.

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POSTHARVEST PATHOGENS AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Postharvest diseases caused by microbial pathogens account for millions of dollars in losses of both durable and perishable produce products every year. Moreover, with consumers increasingly demanding minimally processed vegetables and fruits--which can be invaded by human pathogens--there is an imperative need for suitable protective measures to provide pathogen-free commodities that are free from, or contain only acceptable levels of, chemical residues.

Providing details of both conventional and modern molecular techniques applicable for the detection, identification, and differentiation of field and storage microbial pathogens, Postharvest Pathogens and Disease Management:
* Discusses diseases of both durables and perishables during transit and storage
* Provides a basic understanding of the effects of handling and storage practices as well as field conditions and product susceptibility on the development of postharvest diseases
* Reveals, as a cautionary note, the potential hazards of mycotoxins with carcinogenic properties that can contaminate fruits and vegetables
* Contains detailed information derived from elucidative evidence and disease data in order to explain the infection process and subsequent stages of disease development
* Helps readers to avoid conditions that favor disease incidence and spread
* Includes real life examples of disease management strategies to help readers develop effective disease management systems suitable for different ecosystems
* Emphasizes the importance of integrating several different effective methods in tandem, including the development of cultivars with resistance to postharvest diseases; the selection of suitable analytical methods; and the effective use of biocontrol agents and chemicals
* Presents protocols for numerous techniques and basic methods, making the book a distinctive and highly useful teaching and research tool

Postharvest Pathogens and Disease Management offers readers insight into the principles and methods of avoiding and managing postharvest diseases of fruit and vegetable products in an efficient, economical, and environmentally feasible manner, allowing producers to sell safer, higher-quality produce to the public and prevent the losses associated with postharvest disease.

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Postharvest Pathogens and Disease Management offers readers insight into the principles and methods of avoiding and managing postharvest diseases of fruit and vegetable products in an efficient, economical, and environmentally feasible manner, allowing producers to sell safer, higher-quality produce to the public and prevent the losses associated with postharvest disease.

Postharvest Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables

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Postharvest Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables
R. Barkai-Golan
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
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ASIN: 0444505849

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Focusing on the great variety of research being done in the field of postharvest pathology, this volume presents a collection of topics concerning the diseases of harvested fruits and vegetables.

Each chapter represents a separate unit which taken together create a better understanding of the whole subject. Topics include the causal agents of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables, their sources and their ways of penetration into the host; factors that may accelerate the development of the pathogen in the host - and those that suppress them; a list of the main pathogens of fruits and vegetables, their hosts and the diseases elicited by them; and a detailed description of the major diseases of selected groups of fruits and solanaceous vegetable fruits. Attack mechanisms of pathogens and defense mechanisms of the host are examined as are treatments aimed at suppressing postharvest diseases. The search for natural and safe chemical compounds and the variety of alternative physical and biological methods for use in postharvest disease control are emphasized.

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Serious, practical and easy to find information.......1999-07-08

This is a very good tool for somebody who wants to know something fast, but at the same time you also have important information if you want to know something more deep

Crop Management and Postharvest Handling of Horticultural Crops: Disease and Disorder of Fruit and Vegetables

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Crop Management and Postharvest Handling of Horticultural Crops: Disease and Disorder of Fruit and Vegetables

Manufacturer: Science Pub Inc
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Post-Harvest Pathology of Fruits and Vegetables (Food Science and Technology)

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Post-Harvest Pathology of Fruits and Vegetables (Food Science and Technology)

Manufacturer: Academic Pr
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Recent Advances in Alternative Postharvest Technologies to Control Fungal Diseases in Fruits & Vegetables 2007

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Recent Advances in Alternative Postharvest Technologies to Control Fungal Diseases in Fruits & Vegetables 2007
Edited by Rosalba Troncoso-Rojas
Manufacturer: Transworld Research Network
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ASIN: 8178952440

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Fungal disease in fruits and vegtables are an important factor affecting their postharvest quality and thus an important cause of large economic losses around the world. This book analyzes the most recent research about the use of synthetic fungicides during postharvest of fruits and vegtables and their implications on human health and environment. The analysis also includes recent chemical-free and environmentally friendly alternative technologies to control fungal diseases including: heat treatments, ozone applications, uv-c technology, natural compounds and the use of tools from the DNA recombinant technology to create transgenic plants expressing transgenes conferring resistance to fungi attack. All chapters were written by eminent internationally renowned scientists, experts in the areas of toxicology, plant physiology, biochemistry, natural products, plant molecular biology and food science.

An annotated check-list of fungi causing postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables in Israel (Agricultural Research Organization. Division of Scientific Publications. Special publication)

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An annotated check-list of fungi causing postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables in Israel (Agricultural Research Organization. Division of Scientific Publications. Special publication)
Rivka Barkai-Golan
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Biological control of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables, workshop proceedings (Shepherdstown, WV; September 12-14, 1990) (ARS)

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Biological control of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables, workshop proceedings (Shepherdstown, WV; September 12-14, 1990) (ARS)
Charles L Wilson
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
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Biological control of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables, workshop proceedings, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, September 12-14, 1990 (SuDoc A 77.15:92)

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Biological control of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables, workshop proceedings, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, September 12-14, 1990 (SuDoc A 77.15:92)
U.S. Dept of Agriculture
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Biological Control of Postharvest Diseases: Theory and Practice

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Biological Control of Postharvest Diseases: Theory and Practice
Charles L. Wilson
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Genetics is fundamental to hearing function, and an understanding of genetics enhances both auditory research and the clinical treatment of the hearing impaired. Approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of hearing impairment have developed from technological advances in genetic research. This volume covers gene expression, mutations, mapping and cloning, as well as mitochondrial and cellular genetics. Chapters are also included on the uses of mouse models, genetic epidemiology and genetic counseling specifically for hearing impairment. As a comprehensive review of the genetics of hearing, this book will interest hearing researchers, clinicians and genetic counselors.

Genetics, Embryology, and Development of Auditory and Vestibular Systems

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Genetics, Embryology, and Development of Auditory and Vestibular Systems
Sherri M. Jones , and Timothy A. Jones
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Genetics of Auditory Disorders
Bronya J. B. (Edt)/ Popper, Arthu Keats
Manufacturer: Springer Verlag 01/1//2002
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Basic Facts in Chemistry
Hillary Bauerman
Manufacturer: Lakshay Publication
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Basic Facts on Chemistry (Basic Facts S.)
R.K. Kaushik , and et al
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Chemistry (Basic Facts)
W.A.H. Scott
Manufacturer: Collins
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ASIN: 0004701755

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"Collins Gems" are smartly designed pocket reference guides, providing knowledge at a glance on a wide variety of popular and timely subjects. Packed with outstanding color photos and illustrations, and sporting durable flexi-bindings, these unique quick-reference books offer the minimum in size and the maximum in information.

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good referance.......1999-02-04

This book offers a very good referance when used together with a text book on chemistry. I used it with "Chemistry the easy way". It explains in more detail all the facts that textbooks seem to cover much to quickly. I highly reccommend it for anyone studying chemistry individually, or in school.

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Basic Facts Chemistry
W.a.H. Scott
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Collins Gem Basic Facts Biology, Mathematics, Computers, Chemistry, Physics (Collins Gems)

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Collins Gem Basic Facts Biology, Mathematics, Computers, Chemistry, Physics (Collins Gems)

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Collins Gem Basic Facts: Chemistry - Revised Ed. (Export) (Collins Gems)

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Collins Gem Basic Facts: Chemistry - Revised Ed. (Export) (Collins Gems)
Dr.W.A.H. Scott , and D.K. Revised by Jeffrey
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This introductory textbook gives a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics. The first part, Analysis, is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter. This part shows that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis, and lead to the present picture of all matter being built out of a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions. The second part, Synthesis, shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions responsible for the forces in all systems become less and less evident in increasingly complex systems. Such systems are in fact dominated by many-body phenomena. A section on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridge the field of "nuclear and particle physics" and "modern astrophysics and cosmology". New developments are covered, e. g. in sections on the double beta decay including a discussion of the possibility of a neutrinoless decay and its implications for the standard model. This concise text, translated into many languages, has become a standard reference for advanced and undergraduate courses.

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Up to date and State of the art.......2000-08-09

Povh, Rith, Scholz, and Zetsche have written an exceptional book about nuclei and particles. It is comprehensive, but not too elaborate to confuse the reader, it is up to date, but provides a thorough guide to the contemporary topics, and it has an unusual structure that is very compelling: In part one, the decomposition of matter down to the structures of elementary particles is presented, in part two, the synthesis of composite systems out of these fundamental particles and their interactions is discussed. This approach is - from a structural point of view - a brilliant idea.

So why do I rate this book with 4 stars only? Maybe because I personally like Donald Perkins' book on high-energy phyics even better (and if the new edition is as good as announced it will probably remain my preferece). The nuclear physics content (my personal field of interest) is also only briefly addressed in the book by Povh et al. (Perkin's book of course contains no introduction to nuclear structure at all, even on a very rough scale, but it has its focus clearly only on high-energy physics whereas Povh et al. also address nuclear structure issues). Clearly, Povh et al. focus on the introduction to a wide field where addtional reading is required anyway.

It would be highly desirable if the authors could enlarge their interesting introductory textbook by a few topical results of nuclear structure physics. But all in all, it is a very good approach to the world of nuclei, particles, and their interactions.

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The Truth of Ecology is a wide-ranging, polemical appraisal of contemporary environmental thought. Focusing on the new field of ecocriticism from a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores topics as diverse as the history of ecology in the United States; the distortions of popular environmental thought; the influence of Critical Theory on radical science studies and radical ecology; the need for greater theoretical sophistication in ecocriticism; the contradictions of contemporary American nature writing; and the possibilities for a less devotional, "wilder" approach to ecocritical and environmental thinking. Taking his cues from Thoreau, Stevens, and Ammons, from Wittgenstein, Barthes and Eco, from Bruno Latour and Michel Serres, from the philosophers Rorty, Hacking, and Dennett, and from the biologists Ernst Mayr and Stephen Jay Gould, author Dana Phillips emphasizes an eclectic but pragmatic approach to a variety of topics. His subject matter includes the doctrine of social construction; the question of what it means to be interdisciplinary; the disparity between scientific and literary versions of realism; the difficulty of resolving the tension between facts and values, or more broadly, between nature and culture; the American obsession with personal experience; and the intellectual challenges posed by natural history. Those challenges range from the near-impossibility of defining ecological concepts with precision to the complications that arise when a birder tries to identify chickadees in poor light on a winter's afternoon in the Poconos.

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Brilliant, tough, unsentimental: all good for ecocriticism.......2004-03-14

Phillips has made an outstanding contribution to ecocriticism, and I see it as positive. He makes thoughtful connections to contemporary theory but obliterates cultural studies and the school of social construction, which have denigrated natural science for too long and discouraged humanists from absorbing the realities of biome and genome. Yes, his tone is brusque but not dismissive; he echoes the kind of discussion familiar to philosophers, where logic and reason prevail over sentiment. The claim that he has nothing new to offer is wrong: in the late chapters he calls for a "wild" ecocriticism that is diverse, eclectic, and pragmatic. I see this approach as far more constructive, and instructive, than the dewy-eyed reverence that preoccupies too many nature writers and their critics to date. Fifty years ago, Leslie Fiedler performed the same service for New Criticism, when he called Huck back to the raft. Instead of reacting defensively, I hope ecocritics will realize that a good mind and wit has taken up their cause and urged them to get serious and active: a languid pastoralism will not win attention in the academy or clean house at the Department of Interior.

irreverent but informed.......2004-02-16

The previous review is a bit unfair and so I am moved to add a few words. Yes, if you are drawn to an environmentalism that is underwritten by spiritual or mystical motivations, then you probably will be irritated by Phillips' irreverence. However, there is much to be said for this literate and well-researched book. Phillips has astoundingly wide interests, which include contemporary environmental thought, environmental history, environmental literature, and the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. His book does contain some positive suggestions about how the environmental movement might take a more pragmatic approach and so become more successful. Also, there is some pleasure, and perhaps glory, to be found in the witty and withering barbs that Phillips hurls at his objects of study. The environmental movement is too important to recoil from criticism like this. It can only be strengthened by the intelligent, informed and, sometimes, acerbic voice of Dana Phillips.

Unfair and irresponsible.......2003-12-04

Phillips book is flawed on a fundamental level. As he works through his arugement he not only essentializes and trivializes the work of ecologists and ecocritics alike, he goes at them from a perspective wholly foregin to their own. Phillips seems to be trying to play the role of the disillusioned environmentalist, yearning for a better, more equitable ecocritical paradigm, but in his self professed attempt to "philosophize with a hammer," he comes off instead as trying to completely undercut the ecological values and aesthetics of the Green Left. He takes pot shots at everyone from Muir and Thoreau to Lopez, Dillard and Ammons. Constantly crying foul at their lack of objectivity, Phillips argues that ecocritics should take on more of a scientific approach, and abandon the world of the spiritual, aesthetic and mystical. His attack at, what he considers to be, the cliche of the "ecological epiphany" is particularly barbed, as is his attack of Dillard's sense of the mystery and awe she feels when confronted with the Blue Ridge Mountains (he does quite a number on her "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"). In the process of dismantaling the ecocritical aesthetic Phillips aligns himself with Joyce Carol Oates in trivializing the "REVERENCE, AWE, PIETY, MYSTICAL ONENESS" that characterize ecocritical responses. In one of his attacks Phillips questions whether "any sense can be made out of" Andrew Pickering's assertion that "the claims that the Earth circles the Sun and that it rests on a stack of turtles were of equal validity." At this point I should have stopped reading, because it should have become clear that Phillips is someone who just doesn't get it. Clearly he is confusing facts with truth, mysticism with positivism, and in asserting that there is some fundemental problem with this statement he is revealing himself is an enemy of the ecocritical project. Clearly ecocriticism, being a young field, is in need of maturing, and admittedly Phillips points out some real problems in its application, but he falls into trap of cutting down the field without sewing new seeds or seeing to the fertility of the ground. Clearly the values that Phillips has brought to the table are so fundamentally different from the ecocritics that he deems to speak of that they can never be reconciled. I will however throw Phillips a bone and point out that he does admit to being unapologetically argumentative, though I'd say dismissive would be more accurate.

The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America

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The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America
Dana Phillips
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OKAF2E

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